Amaltheia
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Amaltheia is a nymph and foster-mother of Zeus, sometimes depicted as the goat that suckled the infant god in a cave in Crete. She is described as the daughter of Oceanus, Haemonius, Olen, and Melisseus, and is associated with the horn that symbolized inexhaustible riches. Amaltheia is also linked to the goat spirit that provided milk to Zeus and later exchanged its horn with her brother Achelous.
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“AMALTHEIA, in Greek mythology, the foster-mother of Zeus. She is sometimes represented as the goat which suckled the infant-god in a cave in Crete, sometimes as a nymph of uncertain parentage (daughter of Oceanus, Haemonius, Olen, Melisseus), who brought him up on the milk of a goat.”
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